Reading and Reference Texts:

Reading copy:

Historical Texts:

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

Text-02 — “Siope — A Fable” — 1838 —
The Baltimore Book — (Mabbott text B) (The Baltimore Book was reissued in 1839, with a new title
page. Presumably sales of the annual were poor, and no further editions were issued in subsequent years.)

Text-04 — “Silence — A Fable” — 1842 — manuscript title revision in
TGAPP — (The tale is listed, under its new title, in Poe’s handwritten table of contents, but the modified
version of volume II of TGA no longer survives. The text is presumably recorded, with perhaps a few additional changes made
in proof, in Text-05)

Reprints:

“Silence. — A Fable” — 1850 — WORKS
— Griswold reprints Text-05 (Mabbott text E) (This is Mabbott’s copy-text) (Although Mabbott asserts
that Griswold’s text “shows one presumably authorial change,” it seems more likely to be an editorial change, and
thus made by either Griswold or one of his typesetters.)